#BlackGirlMagic. #BlackBoyJoy. In the year of unnecessary Avatars, 2023, we are all familiar with these concepts. If not, I hope you soon cast off whatever rock has been crushing you and get into the spaces that these notions have opened and the new lens they have provided for writing about,...
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God of War Diversity Celebrated in Game: Will It be the Same in the TV Show?
For more than 15 years, God of War has been one of the most popular game franchises. In fact, since its first release in 2005, the title has spawned several versions of the game and numerous...
Top 10 Most Powerful Black Characters in Comics
With power levels off the chart, the Black characters on this list are some of the most powerful – if not the most powerful – beings in their respective universe. Whether it takes a cavalcade of...
How Tough is Blade?
The Dhampir. The Daywalker. The one thing worse out tonight than vampires. The one and only Eric Brooks, aka Blade, is probably the coolest vampire to appear in media. And no, despite the fact he...
The Many Shades of Gatekeeping: How “Emerging Author” Hurts More Than Helps
By L.M. Davis I’ve been in the fantasy game for more than a decade. I can remember a time when the attention to and concern with the lack of diversity in the genre wasn’t even a twinkle in...
The Changing Tide – The Importance of Legacy Characters
DC Comics has recently announced that Jackson Hyde (aka Kaldur’ahm) will graduate from his status as the current “Aqualad” to that of fully fledged “Aquaman” in the aptly titled upcoming six-issue...
The Future Looks Black – DC Comics’ 10 year Stride Towards New Black Superheroes
“Inclusivity” and “diversity” have been buzz words that have dominated the discourse in all forms of media for the last decade at least. To that end, for the past few years, the Big Two have been...
Why Monica Rambeau Matters.
by Nicole Dillard Full disclosure: I am not a comic book reader. My journey into Marvel only goes as far as the blockbuster movies, so when it came to the characters in their newest show,...
What Got Me Through 2020, Part 2
Challenging is the perfect way to describe this year. Many people in that March time frame were in the same place as my family. I was left uncertain about my children’s future when the school...
What Got Me Through (December) 2020: Pokémon
Editor's Note: 2020 has been the year that we’d all like to forget. Without getting into specifics, this year has been difficult for all of us. Here at BlackSci-Fi.com we’re starting a series...
So Mother is White Supremacy, Right?
First, I readily acknowledge that this is a pretty hot take. I have only seen one episode of Raised By Wolves (because I haven’t created an HBO Max account yet and am uncertain of why this show is...
“Arrow-versity”- A Look at Inclusivity & Diversity in the CW Superhero TV Shows: Part 2
Check out Part 1 here. Part 2: The Blue and The Gold SUPERGIRL Jumping straight in, “Supergirl” became the third series in the ever-expanding “Arrowverse” that debuted on CBS (then on CW from season...
Radical Black Re-Imaginings: Afrofuturism and Community Work
Words by Maurice Broaddus Art by Jim Mahfood One of the questions often asked me is what it means to be the resident Afrofuturist at the Kheprw Institute (KI). KI is a grassroots non-profit...
“Arrow-versity” A Look at Inclusivity & Diversity in the CW Superhero TV Shows
Part 1: The Brave & The Bold Following the surprising phenomenal success of teen superhero drama “Smallville” (2001-2011), The CW decided to strike when the iron was hot after the tenth and...
A Montage of Black Folks Kicking Racist Butt
Note: Spoilers for Watchmen in video below I'm tired, so damned tired. I'm tired of seeing these videos of us being harassed by "Karen's" and "Brian's" (take the name if you want). I'm tired of...
Missives from the Nebula: ‘Quarantine!’
Its April, 2020. Locked down in Los Angeles. I am not sure that I saw a global pandemic on the horizon as another year, and decade, came to fruition on New Year’s Eve. (Yes, I know that technically...
Castlevania/ Season 3: Isaac’s Bloodlust is Challenged by the Captain
The return of Castlevania to Netflix brings with it a renewed hope for plot and character development in a traditionally short episodic adventure. One could argue on the effectiveness of that goal...
Missives from the Nebula: ‘Looking for The Perfect Beat’
Universal b-boy, looking for the perfect beatMortal motivations, looking for the perfect beatMighty Zulu Nation, they have found the perfect beatAfrika Bambaataa, I present the perfect beat beat...
Missives from the Nebula: ‘From Here to the Legion’
I started reading comics in the early 70’s in collected additions of the daily strip (not actually a strip) Family Circus. Those collections introduced to me the concept of an overlapping story with...
Rep. Cummings, HBO’s ‘Watchmen’, and How Black Creatives Can Battle Erasure
HBO's Watchmen ignited its season with three things that most blerds love: masked heroes, alternate timelines...and Regina King. King's character, Angela Abar (dubbed 'Sister Night' in the series)...
The Making of a Black Superhero: From the Background
By L.M. Davis I stand on the edge of a cliff, cheering for the man who would be king, as he fights the battle to win his crown. My attire is regal, perhaps too lavish for the conditions, but all who...
